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Webster 1913 Edition

Carve

Carve

(kärv)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Carved
(kärvd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Carving
.]
[AS.
ceorfan
to cut, carve; akin to D.
kerven
, G.
kerben
, Dan.
karve
, Sw.
karfva
, and to Gr.
γράφειν
to write, orig. to scratch, and E.
-graphy
. Cf.
Graphic
.]
1.
To cut.
[Obs.]
Or they will
carven
the shepherd’s throat.
Spenser.
2.
To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
Carved
with figures strange and sweet.
Coleridge.
3.
To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form;
as, to
carve
a name on a tree
.
An angel
carved
in stone.
Tennyson.
We
carved
not a line, and we raised not a stone.
C. Wolfe.
4.
To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
“To carve a capon.”
Shak.
5.
To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
My good blade
carved
the casques of men.
Tennyson.
A million wrinkles
carved
his skin.
Tennyson.
6.
To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
Who could easily have
carved
themselves their own food.
South.
7.
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Lie ten nights awake
carving
the fashion of a new doublet.
Shakespeare
To carve out
,
to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out.
“[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage.”
Shak.
Fortunes were
carved out
of the property of the crown.
Macaulay.

Carve

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
2.
To cut up meat;
as, to
carve
for all the guests
.

Carve

,
Noun.
A carucate.
[Obs.]
Burrill.

Webster 1828 Edition

Carve

CARVE

, v.t.
1.
To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at tale.
2.
To cut wood, stone or other material into some particular form, with an instrument, usually a chisel; to engrave; to cut figures or devices on hard materials.
3.
To make or shape by cutting; as, to carve an image.
4.
To apportion; to distribute; to provide at pleasure; to select and take, as to ones self, or to select and give to another.
5.
To cut; to hew.
To care out, is to cut out, or to lay out, by design; to plan.

CARVE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cut up meat; followed sometimes by for; as, to carve for all the quests.
2.
To exercise the trade of a sculptor.
3.
To engrave or cut figures.

CARVE

,
Noun.
A carucate.

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